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Mercer University is rolling out 500 new virtual desktops based on the Unidesk virtual desktop provisioning and application delivery platform as part of the university’s new “Borderless Classroom” Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) initiative. The project will offer Mercer students enhanced access to lab applications, empower faculty to more rapidly evolve class curriculums, and enable IT to reduce the operational costs of desktop management.

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Heartland Payment Systems, Campus Solutions division announced that, as an official collaborative partner with SunGard Higher Education, its hosted payment gateway and Campus OneCard are now integrated with the SunGard Banner Student Information System. Heartland’s hosted payment gateway is a PCI and PA-DSS compliant solution that provides real-time integration for student payments, while Heartland’s Campus OneCard System is a multi-functional campus ID card.

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Turnitin, maker of solutions for originality checking and plagiarism prevention, announced a partnership with ProQuest, an information company serving the global research community, to include more than 300,000 dissertations and theses from 2008 to the present in the Turnitin comparison database. The agreement enhances Turnitin's repository of scholarly content while extending its massive plagiarism-checking database, which now tops 20 billion current and archived web pages, 200 million student papers and more than 110 million articles from scholarly journals.

The AGB has chosen Rapid Insight Veera to increase their reporting and analysis capabilities and speed, and to meet the growing analytic demands of their organization. As a self-service business intelligence tool, Veera enables business analysts and nontechnical users to develop their own reports, dashboards, analytic datasets, and ad hoc analyses. Veera's drag-and-drop analytic process builder allows users to turn data into information by merging, aggregating, cleansing, and transforming data from formats as disparate as Excel, Access, SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, and text.

Skidmore College has joined the Reeher Platform, the first shared management system dedicated to higher-education fundraising in which features and tools added for one customer benefit all. The private liberal arts college in Saratoga Springs, NY, began using the Platform to support its growing annual fund, major gift, parent and gift planning initiatives, especially for prioritizing prospective donors.